Mel
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Ok, I know I really should look for a CCTV forum, but I figured it would be worth asking the computer hardware experts here 
I occasionally get asked to sort out one or other of a couple of CCTV systems for a local club, and while fixing another issue, noticed that the draws of both recorder's CDRW drives, which are used to copy footage from the hard drives in the event of an incident, won't eject without help from a paper clip: almost certainly caused by the cooling fan drawing dust into the mechanism through the drive - I've had problems with dust stopping them recording before.
I guess they might start working if I blast compressed air at them, but I need to fit a second IDE hard drive in one of the boxes, so figured it wouldn't cost much to buy a brand new cd burner and fit it at the same time. However, I've checked most of the computer hardware suppliers I normally use and perhaps unsurprisingly they only seem to stock DVD burners these days.
Can anyone suggest a reliable supplier that still sells burnproof IDE CDRW drives, or will I have to resort to Ebay, or second hand units?
Alternatively, might a DVD burner be seen as a CD burner by the firmware (which only writes to CDRs) -I'm none to sure that the firmware will even be compatible with many other models of CD burner.
I occasionally get asked to sort out one or other of a couple of CCTV systems for a local club, and while fixing another issue, noticed that the draws of both recorder's CDRW drives, which are used to copy footage from the hard drives in the event of an incident, won't eject without help from a paper clip: almost certainly caused by the cooling fan drawing dust into the mechanism through the drive - I've had problems with dust stopping them recording before.
I guess they might start working if I blast compressed air at them, but I need to fit a second IDE hard drive in one of the boxes, so figured it wouldn't cost much to buy a brand new cd burner and fit it at the same time. However, I've checked most of the computer hardware suppliers I normally use and perhaps unsurprisingly they only seem to stock DVD burners these days.
Can anyone suggest a reliable supplier that still sells burnproof IDE CDRW drives, or will I have to resort to Ebay, or second hand units?
Alternatively, might a DVD burner be seen as a CD burner by the firmware (which only writes to CDRs) -I'm none to sure that the firmware will even be compatible with many other models of CD burner.























